"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do."
"So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms."
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Source: Computer Lib. Book by Ted Nelson, p. 42 / Dream Machines p.45, 1974.
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